A Gilt-Bronze Wall Clock and Matching Barometer

A Fine Gilt-Bronze Wall Clock and Matching Barometer with Sèvres Style Porcelain Plaques.

The dial of the clock signed ‘JULIEN LEROY A PARIS’, the barometer dial signed ‘PASSEMANT AU LOUVRE’.

The eight day strike Wall Clock and its matching Barometer, both have a terminal in the form of a pineapple drop with acanthus leaf scroll detail.  Above this is a Sèvres panel of a cherub in a garden, rising to a white enamelled dial with Arabic and Roman numerals flanked by cascading relief moulded fruit from a further Sèvres panel of a cherub in flight below a ribbon tied pediment.

This companion clock and barometer are fine nineteenth century examples of a pair originally supplied to Madame du Barry in 1769 by the marchand mercier Simon-Philippe Poirier.

Eighteenth century models are now in the permanent collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Musée du Louvre in Paris, the Metropolitan  Museum of Art in New York.
 
French, Circa 1880.

Literature:

De Bellaigue, G. The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Furniture, Clocks and Gilt-Bronzes, Vol. I, no. 1, pp. 44-47, (Fribourg), 1976; for a similar 18th Century example.

Alcouffe, Daniel & al. Gilt Bronzes in the Louvre, pp. 140-141 for an illustration of a similar 18th century example.

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This object is eligible for a Certificate of BADA Provenance

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